Ex-CIA official thinks Biden failed to evacuate people from Sudan due to 2021 Afghanistan debacle

Former CIA official George Beebe suggests the Biden administration's failure to evacuate 16,000 people from Sudan was due to the 2021 Afghanistan debacle that resulted in the death of 13 U.S. soldiers.

"The fact that we're not doing it in Sudan--the US government evacuated our embassy personnel, but essentially told American nationals in Sudan that they can provide guidance on how to get out and advice, but we're not actually going to evacuate them with with US government resources," Beebe said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show.

"That's a departure from the norm," he continued. "And I suspect that it has a lot to do with what happened in Afghanistan--that bungled evacuation effort is something that I don't think the Biden administration wants to see repeated."

There are currently an estimated 16,000 Americans stranded in Sudan, according to John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council in the White House.

As of now, there is no plan in place for a rescue mission, according to NBC News.

"So rather than risk that, I think they're saying to US Nationals, 'You're on your own to find a way out.'"

Beebe emphasized that rescue missions are common so it's strange that the Biden administration doesn't have a plan for those in Sudan.

"This is a little bit of an unusual situation in that evacuations of American nationals by the US government and by the U.S. military have historically been fairly common," he stated. "[We've] done a lot of these sorts of things."